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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Church-sponsored plans Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Drinker Biddle's ERISA Litigation Newsletter, April 2012 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Another Question is Answered in the Who's the Employer Q&A Column ERISA Litigation Newsletter, March 26, 2012 (PDF) Erie's Saint Vincent Health Center Considers Pension-Plan Change Recent DOL Initiatives: Questions Answered Setting the Record Straight on Saint Peter's University Hospital's Pension Plan Saint Peter's University Hospital Retirement Plan: Responses to Statements Made in February 24, 2012, Letter and Accompanying Q&A Saint Peter's University Hospital Retirement Plan: The Law and the Facts Avoid the Common Mistakes Affecting Plan Loans Webcast [Official Guidance] Final Rules On Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Relating to Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Ppaca (PDF) Loophole Puts Pension Plans at Risk: Jewish Groups Use Exemptions for Churches to Skirt Rules Americans Weigh in on Contraception Rule Bishops Reject White House's New Plan on Contraception Coverage Many Catholic Institutions In New York State Already Covering Birth Control White House Compromise Still Guarantees Contraceptive Coverage for Women Obama Compromises Amid Catholic Contraception Coverage Anger Obama Tweaks Birth Control Rule Administration and Catholics Tangle Over Mandatory Contraception Coverage Domestic Policy Council Director's Statements on White House Blog About Contraceptive Mandate [Opinion] Protestants and Jews Declare to White House: We Stand With Catholics Anger Brewing on the Left About Mandatory Contraceptive Coverage for Employees of Religious Employers [Opinion] Obamacare's Contraception Mandate Tramples on Religious Liberty [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Recognizes 'Ministerial Exception' to Federal, State Employment Laws [Opinion] Disregarding Religious Beliefs: Obama's Radical Power Grab on Health Care Catholic Clergy Come Out Swinging Against HHS Regulation Mandating Cost-Free Contraceptives Workers Fight Switch to 'Church Plan' Status of Pension Plans Workers Fight Switch to Church Pension Plans [Opinion] Obamacare 'Contraceptive' Mandate Made in Bad Faith [Guidance Overview] HHS Extension of Compliance Date for Contraceptives Coverage for Certain Nonprofit Employers Administration Rules Insurers Must Cover Contraceptives Has Obama Waged a War on Religion? ERISA Pension Protections Avoided Through Church Affiliation Is Your Pension Plan Having a Religious Conversion? Here's What You Can Do [Guidance Overview] IRS Rev. Proc. 2011-44 Prescribes New Procedures for Church Plan Rulings Religious Groups Want Relief from Birth Control Mandate [Guidance Overview] New Notice Requirements for Retirement Plans Seeking IRS Approval of Church Plan Status [Guidance Overview] Updated Chart of IRS and Social Security Limits Reflects 2012 Limits [Guidance Overview] Defined Benefit Plans Must Make Required Payments (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New IRS Church Plan Guidance Should Influence Participant Disclosures Poor Economy and Pension Issues Challenge Clergy of All Denominations [Guidance Overview] IRS Revenue Procedure Requiring Notices of Requests for Church Plan Status (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Establishes Church Plan Procedures [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Rev. Proc. 2011-44: Revised Procedure for Church Plans Filing a Request for a Determination Letter (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Church Plan Administrators Are Subject to State Law Claims House OKs Collective Trust Investments by 403(b) Church Plans The Legislative History of Church Pension Plans Coming IRS Church Plan Rules May Enhance Participant Protections [Guidance Overview] Illinois Civil Union Law Affect on 'Church' Plans Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Is Faulted on Handling of Pensions [Opinion] Senate Committee Chairmen Express Concern to IRS Over Upcoming Rules Defining 'Church Plan' (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Federal Court Rules in Precedent-Setting ERISA Class Action Complaint [Guidance Overview] 2010 Year-End Compliance Reminders for Defined Contribution Plans Not Subject to ERISA (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS announces 2011 limits on contributions and benefits IRS Working to Bring 'Church' Pension Plans under ERISA IRS Suspends Rulings on Church Plan Status for Pension Plans; PBGC Coverage at Issue Church Workers' Pensions Lack Safeguards ERISA Class Action Suit Filed Against Publishing House of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [Guidance Overview] Chart of 415, Etc., Limits Updated for News Release IR-2009-94 Important New Online Official Survey Asks How the New Retirement Plan IRS Determination Letter Process is Working, How It Might Be Improved Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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